Research Overview of UH Computer
Graphics and Interactive Media Lab
Associate Professor of Computer Science
Director of Computer Graphics and Interactive Media Lab
University of Houston
UH CGIM Lab Website: http://graphics.cs.uh.edu
Zhigang Deng, Ph.D.
Talk Outline Current Research Projects
Facial Animation and Virtual Humans
Character and Crowd Animation
GPU Computing and High-Performance Graphics
Human Computer Interaction and Gaming
3/23
Facial Animation and Modeling
Research Projects Live Speech Driven facial animation
(lip-sync, head movements, and eye
motions)
Automated facial animation editing
Perceptually-guided facial animation
Sketch-based Facial modeling
4/23
Research Projects Online auto-labeling of multiple
interacting motion capture subjects
Human motion data compression
and retrieval
Context-aware crowd motion
diversification
Crowd formation sketching and
synthesis from examples
Character and Crowd Animation
5/23
GPU Computing & High-Performance
Graphics Algorithms Research Projects Skinning Decomposition Algorithms
Raytracing on Multi-GPU Systems
Energy-efficient GPU and graphics computing
Interactive geometric computing algorithms
Human Computer Interaction
and Gaming Research Projects
Improving gaming experience via
adaptive difficulty adjustment
Virtual environment augmented
robot-assisted rehabilitation
Text-driven avatar interface for
mobile computing
Gesture-interface based, mixed
reality social game on smartphones
Acknowledgments
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